History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . Michigan, wdiofor 12 years stood with Webster and Clay indefense of the constitution, who was once thecandidate of his party for Iresident, and dur-ing whose second term in the United StatesSenate that strong mo\ement began in Michi-gan against the extension of slavery North andWest. He was a son of Michigans colonialperiod, and typical of that generation of strongand good men. We owe much of our earlyprogress to Lewis Cass. With the close of the War of 1812, and thewinning over of the hostile Indians, the rovingadventurers went f
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . Michigan, wdiofor 12 years stood with Webster and Clay indefense of the constitution, who was once thecandidate of his party for Iresident, and dur-ing whose second term in the United StatesSenate that strong mo\ement began in Michi-gan against the extension of slavery North andWest. He was a son of Michigans colonialperiod, and typical of that generation of strongand good men. We owe much of our earlyprogress to Lewis Cass. With the close of the War of 1812, and thewinning over of the hostile Indians, the rovingadventurers went farther north, while in thesouth they were followed by pioneers lookingfor places to settle. The Indians graduallywithdrew to the agencies and settlements pro-vided for them by the several treaties. A new era dawned for Michigan, and theSaginaw Valley was not long to feel its splen-did isolation. The rays of advancing civiliza-tion are sweeping the horizon, and penetratingthe darkest recesses of wood and glen. In thechanceful tide of human affairs, there comes. lliif Aj|fftfi ^^i rifftf
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